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PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
SECOND QUARTER
MODULE 7

HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT

CAREER PATHWAYS

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 SECOND QUARTER
MODULE 7, WEEK 7
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT CAREER
PATHWAYS

Content Standard: The learner demonstrates an understanding of his/her

personal development as an important component of setting
career and life goals.
Performance Standard: The learner shall be able to analyze and synthesize
personal development as an important component of setting
career and life goals.
Learning Outcomes : Upon completion of the module, the student is expected to
prepare a career plan based on the identified career options to
attain personal goals.
Competencies: 1. Explain the factors in personal development that may guide
him/her in making important career decisions.
2. Identify the factors in making important career decisions an
adolescent.
Competency Code: Esp-PD11/12PC-IIg-12.3, EsP-PD11/12IOPD-IIi14.1

What I Know

Let us try to check how far you have known about yourself in the
past and how ready you are in choosing your career. Carefully analyze the
questions below and choose the letter of the correct answer. You may write
your answers in any size of paper.

Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer.

1.What refers to an occupation that is chosen as one’s life work.

A. Career B. Performance C. Pressures D. Profession

2. It can be a legitimate criterion for choosing a career.

A. Affordability B. Potentials C. Persuasion D. Talents

3.Who are these people who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze,
evaluate, or solve problems?

A. Artistic B. Enterprising C. Investigative D. Social

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4. Who are these people who have artistic, innovating, or institutional
abilities and like to work in unstructured situations using their
imaginations or creativity?

A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Enterprising D. Realistic

5. It represents the knowledge and skills, both academic and technical,

necessary to pursue a full range of career.

A. Career B. Pathway C. Profession D. Professional

6. What is the strategic plan that defines a goal or desired outcome and
includes the major steps in milestones needed to reach it.

A. Career B. Profession C. Roadmap D. Skills

7. Which factor below does not influence the choice of career among
students?

A. Parental Influence

B. The field of work is glamorous

C. Location is not to be considered.

D. Peer pressure to take the same course.

8. Is the process of improving oneself such as activities enhancing

employment skills, increasing consciousness, and building wealth.

A. Career

B. Opportunities

C. Career Pathway

D. Personal Development

9. Which of the factor below is not to consider in choosing the right career?

A. Identify your skills

B. Consider your interest

C. Remember your values

D. Financial status is not to be considered

10. Who was the psychologist who classified job career into six namely
artistic, realistic, investigative, conventional, and enterprising.

A. John Holland

B. Theodor Morell

C. Dorothea Reuben

D. Maria Elena Olive

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 What I Need to Know

For you to further understand the entire lesson of this module, let me
share to you the learning objectives.
At the end of this lesson, you can:
▪ Identify the factors in making important career decisions as
adolescents.
▪ Prepare a career plan based on the identified career options
in attaining personal life’s goal.

What’s In

As you grow you become more mature and responsible enough. For you to
prepare yourself I want you to complete the statement inside the box. Copy and
answer this one on a sheet of paper. Please avoid erasures.

Activity 1

My Future and I

I believe…
My name is…

Three things I
am good at
I want to be… are…

I am capable
I am choosing at…
I this career
My interests are
because…
on…

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 What’s New

Confused About Your Career Path?

Teenagers are still uncertain on which path of career to go. The
following activity will help you examine on what interest yourself. Copy the table and
color the rectangle on the third column beside each statement. Follow the
instructions given below.

Red= Like/you love most

Yellow= Dislike/Do not want to do
Green= Uncertain/Unsure
Orange= Others pls specify

Activity 2 Color ME

Passion
What touches your heart?
• Connecting to others?
• Leading a team?
• Exploring new technology?
• Helping others
• Others (pls specify) _______

Environment
Where would you like to work
at?
• In a recording studio?
• In a laboratory?
• In school?
• Outdoors?
• Others (pls specify) ______

Skills
What are you good at doing?
• Teaching others?
• Managing money?
• Taking care of people?
• Fixing something?
• Others ( pls specify)

Process questions:
1.Which statements above have you colored with red? yellow? green? Why do
you think you color it with such colors?
2. Were you able to examine and identify the traits that interest more on
yourself?
3. How do you find the activity? Does it help you find your career path in the
future?

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 What Is It

Defining Career Pathways

The term “career pathways” means a combination of rigorous and high-quality

education, training, and other services that:
• prepares an individual to be successful in any of a full range of secondary or
postsecondary options.
• includes counselling to support an individual in achieving individual’s
education and career goals.
• organizes education, training, and other services to meet the needs of an
individual in a manner that accelerates the educational and career
advancement of the individual.
• enables the individual to attain a secondary school diploma or it’s recognized
equivalent credentials.
• helps individual enter or advance within a specific occupation.

Personal Development and Career Management

Most people believe that career management and development mean skills,
education, and training. They don't think that personal development plays a part to
their career success. To them, their personal development has nothing to do with
their careers, because they feel it has nothing to do with work. However, that's a
mistake.
Your job skills and education only take you so far in your career. You also need
attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that will lead you to success. In fact, personal
development is a critical key to career success.

Personal Development
▪ The ability to develop and display your desired competencies which results
to many factors working together.
▪ It requires areas of strength, potential weaknesses, and growing
capabilities.
▪ It is the process of improving oneself such as activities enhancing
employment skills, increasing consciousness, and building wealth.
▪ It covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and
potentials, and enhance the quality of life that contribute to the realization
of dreams and aspirations.

Career Pathway(s)
It refers to the progress and It represents the knowledge and
actions taken by a lifetime, especially skills, both academic and technical,
those related to that person’s necessary to pursue a full range of
occupation. career opportunities with a pathway.
A person’s course or progress
through life or a distinct portion of life. Opportunity

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(Oxford dictionary) It includes an appropriate
A profession / occupation mix of something which matches our
chosen as one’s life’s work. (Collin appropriate actions with the work
English dictionary) involved and holds the potentials to
Profession fulfill our wants and desires.
Is a disciplined group of A situation or condition
individuals who adhere to ethical favorable for attainment of a goal.
standards. Skills
Professional Is the ability to use one’s
Is a member of a profession knowledge effectively and readily in
who are accountable to those served execution or performance.
An expertise or doing good at
and to society.
something.
Roadmap
Is a strategic plan that defines
a goal or desired outcome and includes
the major steps or milestones needed to
reach it.
Factors in Choosing
the Right Career
Making career choices is one of the most important decisions in anyone’s
life. For you to prepare yourself consider the following factors in choosing a
career.

➢ Picking a career, you are gifted at, can enable you to

exceed expectation and give yourself a secured future.

➢ Pick one from you and consider what you would love to
do.

➢ Most imperative thing when you’re picking something

that will furnish you with worthy level of security.

➢ This reflects of what you do as a person.

➢ It is your capacity to seek after or change professions

from the available career opportunities may depend on
your financial condition.

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 The more effort you put into your search for the right career, the more you’ll
get out of it. Diligently invest your time and effort because change like this is rarely
easy, but often rewarding.
Do what you are passionate about your enthusiasm and sincerity will shine
through, pursue interests that makes you happy, enriching and rewarding.
Your College Roadmap

The typical student embarks on the college search by first choosing

the college they love, then a major, and finally choosing a corresponding career
path. Students should instead embark on their journey with the end in mind -
a future career. Instead of focusing on the four years spent in college, turn your
attention to the 40+ years you will work after graduation.
The college roadmap should be tailored to the individual student. Students
should first ask themselves, “Who Am I” “What am I wired to do?” and “Who will
I be”? Below is a table for you to assess and examine yourself.

Process Questions:
1. Can you describe yourself as a person?
2. What is your future self?
Below is an example of a roadmap. Read and analyze the statements inside
each box. Make your own roadmap to success.

My Roadmap to Success

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Factors that Influence the Career Choice Among Students

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 The process of choosing a
career can be daunting.
Consider the following
factors in the choice of
your career.

Factors Issue/Debate Tip

Parental Influence
Parents often influence Consider your parent’s
our choices because they opinion. They may have
think they know what’s some great suggestions.
best for us. However, However, when it comes
their path may not down, put your interest
always be the right one. first.
Many students pursue
The field of work is high profile degrees,
glamorous Take time to explore
such as medicine or law,
different career paths
without any actual
before choosing a
interest in the fields
course. Shadow or
themselves. They realize
interview a professional
all too late that the work
to gain firsthand
is much less glamorous
knowledge.
than society portrays it
to be.
Peer pressure to take the
same course Some students take a College provides
course or career only students with multiple
because their friends are opportunities to hang
taking it. Peer pressure out with friends, but
sometime only hurts the class is not the place
individual in the long where friendship should
run. be prioritized.

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 Course will boost my There’s no doubt that CVs
resume (CV) are important but what’s
more important, though is
Only take a resume booster
your GPA (Grade Point
if you are confident in your
Ave.) Many students enroll
ability to pass the class or
in courses thinking that
if the class is required for
employers value the
your career. Challenge
extremely tough course.
yourself but know your
However, many students
limits.
do not do well in these
courses and ultimately
hurt their GPA’s

Attractiveness of the The location you choose

City/ Location/ must be within your price
Transport Links When choosing a course, it range, but it should also
is important to consider offer the courses you need
the logistics of a city. for your career. Choose a
However, the location place that satisfies your
should not be the deciding course needs while also
factor for a course choice. satisfying some of your
personal preferences on
location.

Source: Slide share Cayanan, Joshua et, al

What’s More

Where Do I Belong?

Psychologist John Holland classified jobs/career, work environment into six

namely, Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and
Conventional. According to him there are no pure classifications in which a
person’s job functions may combine ESA (Enterprising, Social, and Artistic) or ISC
(Investigative, Social, and Conventional) or any two or three other possible
combinations. If our interests are patterns ESA, then we will be attracted to a job/
career in which the work activities are ESA.
Below are descriptions where same or similar interests are being grouped
in one cloud. Carefully read the statements in each cloud and try to examine which
group or a combination of interest do you belong?

Guide questions:
1. Which group do you belong? Write down all the traits which you think you
have in yourself?
2. State your personality traits, skills, and abilities to prove that you belong
that group?

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 Realistic Investigative
People who have athletic People who love to
or mechanical ability, observe, learn,
prefer to work with investigate, analyze,
objects, machine tools, evaluate, or solve
plants or animals or be problems
outdoors
Artistic
People who have
Conventional artistic,
People who like to innovating, or
work with data, have
intuitional
clerical or numerical
abilities, and
ability, prefer to
like to work with
carry things out in
unstructured
detail or follow situations, using
through on others’
their
instructions imaginations or
creativity
Enterprising

People who like to work Social

with people-influencing, People who like to
persuading, performing work with people –
leading, leading, or to inform,
managing for enlighten, help,
organizational goals or for train, develop, or
economic gain cure them or skilled
with words.

What I Can Do

As a teenager you are now aware of how you go through with your career. You
have learned the factors to consider in choosing the best career that suits you and
your personality. You are now capable of choosing a job or a career that fits you and
will satisfy your dream to be successful.
Below is an activity wherein you are going to choose which career
/job/profession best suits you.

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Activity 3

Write an essay entitle “ME and My Dream Job” Use a short size bond paper
in making the activity.

Information Flight
Technology Attendant

Nurse Aeronautics
Doctor

Guide questions in making your essay:

a. How do you go about plans for your “future you” Your plans for your life?
b. How does it feel about having a wonderful future career plan?

Assessment

c. What is your over-all realization after the activity?

1. What means a combination of rigorous and high-quality education, training, and
other services.
A. Career C. Personality Development
B. Career Pathways D. Follow your friend’s advice
2. Which one below is the process of improving oneself such as activities enhancing
employment skills, increasing consciousness, and building wealth.
A. Pathway C. Personal Development
B. Switch career D. Remember your values

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3. This means activities that improve awareness and identify, develop
your talents and potentials.
A. Career C. Education
B. Development D. Personality Development
4. Who was the Psychologist who classified job/career into six namely artistic,
realistic, investigative, conventional, social, and enterprising.
A. John Holland C. Dorothea Reuben
B. Theodor Morell D. Maria Elena Olive
5. What refers to an occupation that is chosen as one’s life work.
A. Career C. Peer persuasion
B. Performance D. Talents and Abilities
6.Is a disciplined group of individuals who adhere to ethical standards.
A. Personality C. Pressures
B. Professional D. Profession
7. What can be a legitimate criterion for choosing a career.
A. Affordability C. Talents
B. Potentials D. Persuasion
8. Who are these people who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate, or
solve problems?
A. Artistic C. Social
B. Enterprising D. Investigative
9. Who are these people who like to observe, learn, and investigate, analyze, evaluate,
or solve problems.
A. Artistic C. Realistic
B. Conventional D. Investigative
10. People who have artistic, innovating, or institutional abilities and like to work in
unstructured situations using their imaginations or creativity.
A. Artistic C. Enterprising
B. Conventional D. Realistic
11.It represents the knowledge and skills, both academic and technical, necessary
to pursue a full range of career opportunities
A. Career C. Profession
B. Pathway D. Professional
12.Is a member of a profession who are accountable to those served and to society.
A. Pathway C. Profession
B. Opportunities D. Professional
13.Who are these are group of people who like to work with people, to inform,
enlighten, help, train, develop or are skilled with words?
A. Conventional C. Investigate
B. Enterprising D. Social

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14.Which of the following factors does not influence the career choice among
students?
A. Parental Influence
B. The field of work is glamorous.
C. Course will not boost your resume.
D. Peer pressure to take the same course.
15.These are the factors in choosing the right career, EXCEPT.
A. Identify your skills.
B. Consider your interest.
C. Remember your values.
D. Financial status is not to be considered

Additional Activities
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A. Choose a career that suits you. Wear the costume of the job you wish to have.
Have a video wearing the costume and tell something why you choose that career. (2
min. video)
B.For Modular Printed Students: You can have a picture of yourself wearing the
costume of your dream job, or you can cut out pictures wearing costume of a job that
you wish to have. Paste it on the SLM answer sheet that you must to submit
A. , Guide Questions: (In doing the Performance Task)

1. How do you become someone in your chosen career?

2. What special skills, abilities, or knowledge do you need, for you to achieve
your chosen career?
3. Tell something about your costume / visual / work of art in relation to your
chosen career?
CRITERIA:
Content
(Presentation of the chosen career are well discussed) ------- 50 pts
Creativity
(Design of the costume is relevant to the chosen career) ------- 30 pts.
Confidence and Visual Appeal
(Good effect on screen on his/her chosen career) ------- 20 pts.
____________________
100 pts

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 Answer Key

B 5.
10.A A 4. 10. A 15. D 5. A
9. A C 3. 9. D 14. C 4. A
8. A B 2. 8. D 13. D 3. D
7. D A 1. 7. B 12.D 2. C
6.C 6. D 11. B 1. C
What I Know Assessment

References

Books:

Cleofe, Myreen P. (2016). Personal Development. Makati City, Philippines: Diwa

Learning Systems Inc.

Caparas, Maria Vida G. 2018. Personal Development Discovering the Key to Success.
Quezon City, Philippines: Abiva Publishing House Inc.

Personal Development Module from the Department of Education. First Edition

2016.

Citation:

Eccles, Jacquelynne S., Carol Midgley, Allan Wigfield, Christy Miller Buchanan,
David Reuman, Constance Flanagan, and Douglas Mac Iver. n.d. "Development
during adolescence: The impact of stage-environment fit on young adolescents'
experiences in schools and in families." American Psychologist 48 (2): 90–101.
Accessed 7 2, 2020

Internet:

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http://myimpact.ch/5-pathways-to-a-meaningful-career-part-four-pathway-of-values/
https://manavrachna.edu.in/blog/factors-that-influences-your-career-choice-7-ps-of-career-
selection/

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